| Woodfin | community in central Buncombe County on the E bank of French Broad River NW of Asheville. |
| Woodford | community in NW Ashe County. |
| Woodington | community in S Lenoir County. Named by Richard Caswell, who acquired a plantation there about 1767 before becoming governor. Name sometimes appears as Woodenton in nineteenth-century records. |
| Woodington Township | SE Lenoir County. |
| Woodland | town in E Northampton County. Alt. 72. Inc. 1883. Settled about 1835. Named for the Wood family, early Quaker settlers. Produces lumber. See also George. |
| Woodlawn | community in NW McDowell County in Turkey Cove and on Limekiln Creek. Site of Cathey's Fort, a rendezvous point for the state militia led by Gen. Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee Indians in 1776. |
| Woodlawn | See Mount Holly. |
| Woodleaf | town in N Rowan County. Inc. 1909, but long inactive in municipal affairs. A post office was est. there in 1855 with Daniel Wood as first postmaster. Alt. 711. A large gravel pit is worked there. |
| Woodleigh | community on Knotts Island in NE Currituck County. |
| Woodley | community in NW Tyrrell County between Scuppernong River and the Tyrrell-Washington county line. Originated as a depot, but tracks and depot no longer in use. |